Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

Microsoft calls SQL Server 2016 the “biggest leap forward” in the 27-year evolution of the SQL Server database. As we’ll see, despite the excess of hype, the SQL Server 2016 database offers ...

As we’ve come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it’s impossible even to mention them all. Nearly everyone is well served, from the BI-hungry users ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

A new, more analytics-friendly version of Microsoft's flagship database hit the streets today. SQL Server 2016, which has been in different forms of closed and public testing over the last year, makes ...

Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its SQL Server ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

If you want to really enjoy reading a technical book or learning a new computer skill set, you just have to check out O’Reilly’s “Head First” series. These books fully earn their “brain-friendly” ...